Carpentry Repairs: Solve your wood problems.

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Carpentry Repairs for your wood work disasters, damage, rot and mishaps.

It’s common for you to notice your home’s wood work having some problems and needing carpentry repairs. Maybe the wood is a little soft when you press on it. That is a possible sign of moisture damage, also known as rot. Rot is a very dangerous enemy of your home.

Rot rarely stays in one place. It has the nasty habit of spreading. Sometimes the rot spreads slowly. Other times the wood rot spreads within a season and can cause not just damage to what you see. It can cause structural damage that compromises your supports and beams holding your house up. It’s tough to diagnose how bad the damage is until inspected by a qualified carpenter, like the 30 year professional at Handy4homes.

Your best defense to avoiding a monumental repair is to catch it before it can spread further.

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It’s hard to know why the rot starts. Here are several causes that can indicate how the rot started.

• Leaking plumbing
• Poorly caulked exterior wood connections
• Badly worn painting
• Exposed exterior wood work
• Improper flashing at decks and on roofs
• Shower walls poorly sealed
• Tub to wall connections badly caulked
• Concrete or masonry touching bare wood
• Windows poorly installed
• Doors poorly installed
• Excessive ice dams
• Gutters backing up
• And some not listed

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Dry rot is a nasty situation you may have that usually comes from fungi growing in your walls.

A fungus attacks the cell structure of wood which make it firm. Fungi usually attack the wood from the inside. A fungus is capable of carrying water from wet areas to dry one. You can’t rule out the presence of fungi in dry woods. This type of rot is difficult to catch without some type of warning sign. Sometimes a smell or a condition as listed above will give a sign that there might be a problem that you need to take a look at. Often structural wood parts of your home become weak and barely able to support your home as they were meant to do.

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Maybe right now it’s common for you to walk into your bathroom and step near your toilet and feel a little sinking when you step near it. Often the wax seal between the toilet and the flange is poorly seated and this causes tiny or worse leaks to flow from the toilet to under your flooring. This is out of your sight and goes on for years without any sign it’s happening till you put your foot through the floor. Vinyl flooring will give a sign it’s happen sooner by the glue giving out and the flooring detaching from the floor. But a ceramic floor will hide such damage till the tile cracks and the underlayment starts to weaken from long term exposure to water. Sometimes the fasteners will rust and the floor will bounce, indicating a severe problem underneath. Any of these signs are reason enough to call us in for a carpentry repair, call us at (339) 970-9825 for an evaluation If you’re in the Arlington, Belmont, Lexington, Newton or Winchester, MA areas..

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The flashing used to seal off window, door, chimney, roof and decks from rains and snow melting when badly or not installed at all, will cause incredible damage.

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The signs of bad flashing will show itself pretty quickly. Interior walls will stain, exterior finishes will start to bubble and flake. Exterior wood siding or trim will start to pop loose from the nails rusting out and or the sheathing rotting out and no longer giving a surface for solid nailing. When flashing is badly installed the water will get into your walls and mold can begin. Poorly installed flashing is one of the most often cause for wood work failure on the exterior of your home and that of the exterior millwork, windows and doors of your home. Call us at (339) 970-9825 for an evaluation.

A good looking deck to house flashing install. No need for a carpentry repair here.

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